If writers were too wise, perhaps no books would get written at all. It might be better to ask yourself 'Why?”'afterwards than before There is no agony like bearing an untold story inside you.

And I can't die easy thinking maybe the menfolks white or black is making a spit cup out of you. Have some sympathy for me. Put me down easy, Janie, I'm a cracked plate.

No matter how far a person can go the horizon is still way beyond you.

I have been in Sorrow's kitchen and licked out all the pots. Then I have stood on the peaky mountain wrapped in rainbows, with a harp and sword in my hands.

Grown people know that they do not always know the way of things, and even if they think they know, they do not know where and how they got the proof.

It was the meanest moment of eternity.

Once you wake up thought in a man, you can never put it to sleep again.